The table tennis World Cup in Macau continued on 15 April, with defending champion Fan Zhendong taking to the court to face Germany’s mainstay Duda. Fan Zhendong came up with a strong momentum, blasting his opponents 11-1 in the first set, and then encountered some difficulties, reversing two consecutive sets of deficits to seal the victory in a 4-0 sweep without being caught in the cold.
Fan Zhendong has had his ups and downs in recent times, losing to Brazil’s Hugo at the WTT Incheon Championships only recently, and is expected to learn from his foreign defeats in his quest to get his first ever five World Cup men’s singles titles this time around – see below for more details on the match.
Match Watch
Fan Zhendong is one of the most-crowned men’s singles champions ever at the Table Tennis World Cup, joining Ma Lin (the current Chinese table tennis team women’s head coach) at the top of the table four times, and naturally, he will be of great interest to fans as he enters the tournament as the defending champion.
Duda is a member of the German men’s team, the level is also very good, but there are a lot of obvious holes in the technology, and Fan Zhendong compared to a large gap. Duda originally did not qualify to participate in this tournament, the results of the German Timo boll first withdrew, gave way to Ferrous, followed by Ferrous also withdrew, which allows Duda to obtain the opportunity, will certainly cherish the opportunity to fight, Fan Zhendong can not be careless.
Match Process
After the match started, Fan Zhendong gave Duda a hard time in the first set, blasting 11-1 to easily take the lead – technically, Duda’s power is relatively large, but the speed is average, in addition to the forehand, articulation and other aspects of the error is more, the middle position can’t be protected, so it was quickly into the wind, by Fan Zhendong to beat the power of no return.
The second game Duda to space for time, as far as possible to throw away the arm to play a vigorous looping, soon bit the score, and then succeeded in achieving a reversal, but then by Fan Zhendong step by step to catch up to only 1 point, had to call a timeout to adjust.
After returning to the court, Fan Zhendong equalised the score through clever near-table changes, and then continued to take points, reversed 11-9, and continued to expand his advantage, but the third game was again forced by Duda’s backhand to break the defence, and once again appeared to be 3-8 behind, I did not expect him to continuously chase points, reversed 10-9, and although this time he did not take it right away, he ended up with a close 14-12 victory.
According to the rules, has a large score of 3-0 win Fan Zhendong still have to play a full four games, the result this time is that he was ahead of the chase to 9 flat, but ultimately resisted the pressure, to 11-9 end of the battle, continue to impact the men’s singles five crown title.
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